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WEATHER
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THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD
Vol. 17—No. 169
NEA Service
Associated Press
Borger, Texas, Tuesday, June 8, 1943
(Six Pages Today)
Price Five Cents
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Churchill States Allies Readying
Large-Scale Amphibious Moves
Pantelleria Undergoes
Ordeal Similar to Malta
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Gtneral Pedro Ramirez, centei. and General Arturo Rawson (left
of Ramirez) are shown addressing a crowd beneath the Govern-
ment House balcony at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo radioed
from Buenos Aires to New York.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
June 8—(AP)—The concentrated strength of the
Allied Northwest African air forces poured a deluge
of bombs and fire onto Italy's sentinel island of Pan-
telleria yesterday.
Formations of every type of plane, from Flying
Fortreses to small Warhawks, flew to the attack, Al-
lied headquarters said
giving rise to smoke clouds
which soared 4,000 feet
above the battered island
□nd drifted wide over the
Women Provide Topic
Of Conversation For
Lonely Artie Fighters
By Eugene Burns
ON THE WOMANLESS WAR
FRONT. ANDREANOF ISLAND
(/P).—The sergeant in the quonset
hut remembered it had been jui-.t
a year since he'd seen a woman.
"Remember, l said a year since
I'd just seen one," added the ser-
geant.
There arg no women within 750
miles of us—unless the Japanese
have Geishas at Kiska. The A-
leut.s were evacuated after Dutch
Harbor, and the USO girls are
not allowed at this end of the
chain of islands.
"You're lucky," a private repli-
ed. "They're * pain. My dame
and I had been stepping regular
for seven veart. She could sweat
it out th*t long, all right. But
then I'm sent up here and bang,
the marries a draft dodger. Don’t
worry. I wrote his draft board.”
“You shouldn't have kept pock-
ing at her that long anyway,”
somebody replied, but was ig-
nored.
“Get this," interrupted a cor-
poral. "McCoy's girl moves from
Nebraska to Seattle so's to be on
the west coast in case when lie
got a furlough. And now she
writes that she's met the man of
her dreams—a sailor first class."
“That's better’n Cy," said ano-
ther. “He was pouring his heart
out on a girl and went straight to
her door when he got back to
Portland last month. Who should
he meet but her husband!”
Shorty spoke up. "Yeah, but the
husband throws a party next
night and Cy gets him another
and is engaged to her now.”
"He's a damn fool if he gave
her a ring," said Silva. “I gave
mine a big diamond, a Marine
grabbed her off, and now' she
w« n’t give it back."
Joe, who had been holding back
until prompted, said, "My girl
wants me to come to Louisville to
decide between me and another.
Imagine asking the general for a
furlough on that one?"
“Mine writes ‘Take it easy with
the eskimos.’ 1 haven't even seen
one.”
“What we need is women,” said
Cy.
"Yeah, suppose they do bring
in a shipload. Then what? The
odds would be about a hundred
to one and where would we get
without bars?"
One man had been fumbling in
his barracks bag. He pulled out
some letters. He said "I goes back
to Sioux City and finds me a girl.
Have her pick out a big ring
worth sixty bucks the next day.
She says she'll be true to me al-
ways and w'c'U get married on my
next furlough."
The letters wero some that had
been returned to him unopened.
They were marked "unclaim-
ed.”
Mail Ration
Application
Immediately
DALLAS, Tex., June 8 (/P).—
The regional office of price ad-
ministration today warned that
more than 1,500,000 families and
indi\ iduals in Texas, Oklahoma
and 1/uisiana had better hurry
and mail their applications for
war ration book no. 3.
These must be postmarked by
midnight Thursday June 10 if
they are to be handled on an im-
mediate basis, OPA said.
The office here had figured 3,-
202,000 applications would be sent
here lro mthe three states, but
only 1,707,960 have been received.
Another phase of the job is
running behind, OPA disclosed.
Because volunteers are too few,
the work of mailing out the new
hook is lagging.
“Our schedule to date,” said
Joe M Griffin, “Calls for the
mailing of 1,508,688 books from
Dallas, but actually only 676,023
have gone out.”
sea.
Eleven enemy planes were shot
down in the onslaught when out-
numbered defenders tried to ward
off the waves of attacks. Two
Allied planes were lost.
The smoke pall spreading from
the bombardment reached almost
to Sicily, 65 miles away, in the
! late afternoon.
In one of the shortest commu-
niques in recent months, Gen.
Eisenhower's headquarters said
"many missions were carried out
by heavy, medium and fighter
bombers" against Pantelleria. No
other targets were mentioned.
Foriro-.s gunners accounted for
six of ihe 11 enemy planes shot
down yesterday when intercep- i
tors tried to hreak up the heavy
formations.
Warhawks tangled with an ene-
my fighter group and shot down
I four more.
Fighter-bombers from Malta
attacked warehouses, road trans-
By Harold V. Bovie
AN ADVANCED AMERICAN
BOMBER BASE IN NORTH AF-
RICA, June 7 </P» (Delayed)—
American airmen taking part in
the bombing of Pantelleria, II
Duce's outpost in the Sicilian
narrows, said today that they
doubled whether even dauntless
Malta in the many months of its
ordeal ever underwent such a
fearful pasting in so short a while.
They pointed out that Pantel-
leriu, although heavily fortified,
lacks the subterranean defenses
of the British sea stronghold, so
that the effects of the round-th-
cloek bombing by Allied planes
must be even more devastating
than that suffered by Malta.
The tough little island, which
in the past has been used by the
Axis as a base for planes to ha-
rass Allied shipping has also been
heavily hammered six times from
the sea by units of the British
fleet.
Following the British Welling-
tons, who have been making the
nrgtrts sleepier for the Axis mili-
tary personnel whose melancholy
duty it is to guard the ten-mile
long island some 30 miles off the
Jolly Elected
President Of
Junior Chamber
Weldon Jolly was unanimously
named president of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce Monday
night by the newly elected direc-
tors of that organization.
Other officers selected were:
Johnnie Johnson, first vice presi-
dent; Abe Latman, second vice
president; Walter Cory, Jr., sec-
Marshall, Home From
Africa, Confers W ith
President Roosevelt
-Gen. George C.
50 Junior-Age
Borgans Finish
Red Cross Work
A ten-hour Red Cross course
has just been completed by 50
junior-age Borgans. Those now
entitled to wear the Junior Red
Cross arm band are Tim Nash,
“cZ,d N!f“‘ie,S 3£[ ’WASHINGTONI, June 8—(AP)-™.. oeu,ge v..
Lynn Heckathorn, Jimmy Hecka- Marsha 11, army chief of Staff, hod on appointment
thorn, Nathalie Haren, Junior with President Roosevelt today to talk over his triD to
Kerns, Truett Hilliard, Leslie North Africa K
Warner, Fred Haren. '' ka l ii ’ , , , . , ,
Mike Brooks, Bennie Barnes, I MorshG.. re.urneo. iGSt night uiter pGf ticipQtiriy in
Billy Gene Witt, Jerry Harris,! overseas conferences with Prime Minister Churchill of
Clifton Barnes, Tom Ed Beiwer, Britain and Allied commanders. While details were
Sonny Daniel, Anna Ruth Reeves, --—— -,.i i . ,
lacking, it was presumed
they went over plans to
carry the fighting to the
continent of Europe.
Marshall’s engagement was at
noon. Two hours later the chief
executive expected to attend the
first meeting of his new,' war mo-
bilization committee headed by
James F. Byrnes. The meeting
will be held in the cabinet room.
Delbert Evitt, Robert Beaton,
Jimmie Lipscomb, Ben Hecka-
thorn, John Ed Reynolds, Donald
Gietz, Robert Cook, Darville Ore,
Mary Lou Martin, Ace Pickens,
Charley Hudson, Forest Lee Holt,
Robert Hudson, Raymond Dale
Flutz.
Norman Barnes, Gary McKen-
na, Robert McKenna, Jean Mar-
lindale, Jimmy Don Martindale,
Dale Platzer, Johnny Barriek,
Wayne Mitchell, Paul Thrower,
Buddy Lang, Joanne Updike, Lar-
ry Rider, Jimmie Lee Randall,
Verdain Barnes, and Robert Cook.
Workers Asked
To Help Farmers
During Vacations
Highlights
Of Speech
By Churchill
LONDON, June 8—UP)— Fol-
Prime Minister Churchill blunt-
ir"? "Ztr'v:
Minister Churchill s address be- . daring “it is evident that am-
phibious operations of peculiar
| complexity and hazard on a large
j scale are approaching.”
port and signal lights at Pazzalo, Tunisian coast. American planes
CAP TOMORROW
The Civil Air Patrol will he
held Wednesday night as usual.
All members are urged to at-
tend. The staff will receive their
commissions and are requested to
be present.
KEEP 'EM FLYING!
BUY U. S. WAR BONDSI
Pacific Battle
Orders Appear
To Be In Transit
Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Battle orders for new Allied
blows aaginst Japan were appar-
ently in transit today as Washing-
ton disclosed that Admiral Ernest
J King had conferred on the West
; Coast with Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz. commander of the Pacific
fleet.
i Simultaneously, Prime Minister
Churchill declared in London that
“The might of America is laying
an ever stronger grip on the outly-
ing defenses of Japan and offer-
ing every moment to the Japa-
nese the supreme challenge of sea
power.”
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox, asked if King’s meeting
with Nimitz and Gen. George C.
Marshall’s recent meeting with
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in
North Africa indicated that the
top officers were carrying reports
cl the Churrhill-Roosevelt meet-
ing to their field commanders, re-
plied:
“Possibly that would be one
very good explanation.”
Knox said the gradual strength-
ening of the Pacific fleet was pro-
giessing. Churchill declared that
the problem of sending “more
speedy and effective aid to Chi-
j na,” as well as bolstering Austra-
lia and New Zealand, was never
absent from Allied consideration.
Meanwhile, n Chinese army
spokesman said China’s great
“rice bowl” was no longer ni dan-
ger as a result Generalissimo
Ch’ang Kai-Shek’s great victory
over th» Japanese invaders along
the tipper Yangtze river.
Supported by American planes,
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
Comiso and Cape Stilo in Sicily.
The battering of volcanic little
Pantelleria started off in the
morning with American. British
and South African Bostons, RAF
Baltimores and American Mit-
chells and warhawks dealing out
widespread havoc.
American Boston crewmen re-
ported that their formation blew'
up two buildings and caused six
other large explosions in the tar-
get area.
German Messerschmitt 109s
and Italian Macchi 202s patrolled
the sea between Pantelleria and
Africa, trying to divert the Allied
fury and the warhaws bagged
two ME-109s and two Macchi-
202s in two strenuous dogfights.
The heavyweight flying for-
tresses spearheaded the Allied at-
tack in the afternoon, with Amer-
ican marauders and fighter bom-
bers suppementing the assault.
“I thought I was doing my part
when I was on the assembly line
back in Michigan,” said a fortress
staff sergeant, J. S. Rzonca, Saint
Claire, Mich., who formerly work-
ed in an automobile plant. To-
day things were reversed. I felt
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
See PANTELLERIA—1
in Gen. Doolittle’s strategigic air
force pounded Pant e I 1 e ria
through the daylight hours.
Flying fortresses, B-25 maraud-
ers, B-25 Mitchells and quick-
darting P-40s and P-38 lightnings
swept in from the sea to subject
the island targets to the sixteenth
successive day of bombing and
strating.
“Their flak is not accurate,”
said Lieut. Col. Troy Keith of
San Jose, Calif., a P-38 group
commander w'ho personally led
his twin-tailed fighters in an af-
ternoon smash at the island and
came heme without meeting a
single enemy fighter.
"Everybody heaves a sigh of
relief now when I tell them the
target is Pantelleria,” said Lieut.
Col. Gordon H. Austin of Scran-
ton, Pa. “The boys would just as
soon go there as to take a trip
around their own airdrome. Who-
ever or whatever is left on that
island can’t be very happy. It
doesn’t take many of those bombs
mat we drop io give you the
shakes.”
»,> oiuuit and mio a mountain
sticking out of it, and on a clear
day you can see it from the Tu-
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
See PANTELLERIA—2
retary; and Charlie Smith, trea-
surer.
Bill Sercomb, president, presid-
ed at the meeting which was at-
tended by nine of the ten direc-
tors. These present included: T.
W. Shaw, Walter Cory, Jr., H. L.
Whitaker, Johnnie Johnson, Abe
Latman, Charlie Smith, Robert
Rogers, Weldon Jolly, and L. L.
Broad books.
Jaycees announced that their
annual installation banquet would
be held on Monday evening, June
28. A committee on arrangements
for the affair will be named by
the president in the next day or
two.
The new officers and directors
will assume their duties begin-
ning July 1.
fore the house of commons to-
day:
A complete agreement has
been reached between the two
governments (Great Britain and
the United States.)
A recent report from W. S.
Bennett, county agent of Stin-
nett reveals that the problem of
locating farm help has been turn-
ed over to the Extension Service.
Bennett reports that he has con-
tacted several industrial superin-
tendants and a number of them,
including the gasoline department
of the Borger and Phillips Petro-
leum Company have approved of
the employees taking their vaca-
tions in the harvest fields.
Harvesting will begin about the
20 or 25 of June, and will last ihave ever befallen Germany in all
Even as Churchill spoke the
Rome radio asserted that British
__ sea-borne forces had attempted
The most complete concord and i 1° lancl on Italian i-sland of
confidence prevails at Gen. Eiscn- ' ^-'amPf<^usai about 70 miles off the
hower’s headquarters and the
forces of the two great nations of
the English-speaking world are
working together literally as if
they were one single army.
It is evident that amphibious
operations of a peculiar com-
plexity and hazard on a large
scale are approaching.
MRS. FRAILEY INDICTED
DALLAS, .Tune 8—(/I5)— Mrs.
Mary K. Frailey, 41, was indicted
today for slaving her two young
children rather than surrender
them to their father, from w'hom
she was estranged.
Her attorney P. P. Ballocw,
said that proceedings would be
instituted sour, to test her sanity.
The shootings occurred here May
6.
from fifteen to twenty days.
Everyone who is interested in
co-operating in the w-ar effort and
working in the harvest and fields
is asked to contact Mr. Bennett.
He will keep a card index of
those farmers needing help with
their farm work, as well as those
who wish to help. There will be
an agent to help farmers and
helpers to get in contact.
the wars she has made, and they
are many.
BUY U. S. WAR BONDS!
THREE FATHERS INDUCTED
HILLSBORO, June 8—(/P)—
Three fathers w'ith children born
since Sept. 15, 1942, were in-
cluded in yesterday’s Hillsboro
selective advice quota sent to
Dallas for final physical exami-
Under selective service regula-
tions, they were not classed as
! having child dependents, the se-
lective service board said.
Herald Staff
Adds Two New
Beporters
Two new reporters joint'd the
editorial staff of the Borger Daily
Herald this week to take the va-
cancy created by resignation of
Valda Cypher, who will leave the
coming week-end for Wichita,
Kans. •
Taking Miss Cypher's place as
society editor is Miss Frances Ad-
kins; taking over duties of gener-
al reporting is Miss Martha Tho-
mas.
Miss Adkins, a recent graduate
of Clarendon High School, lives
at 1018 South Main street. Her
father is connected with the rub-
ber plant. While in school Miss
Adkins was reporter for the High
School and College section of the
Clarendon News.
Miss Thomas comes from Holli-
day. She attended Paris Junior
college and received her Bache-
lor ot Science degree in journa-
lism May 31, from Texas State
College for Women. Denton.
A sports editor to replace Bron-
ko Kuhl, who has gone East, has
not yet been selected. Until that
time sports are being handled by
Editor J. C. Phillips and Loren
Roseberry. ad man.
Into The Deep For Axis Planes
A-
Tunisian coast. The report was
not confirmed immediately by Al-
lied sources.
The broadcast said the assault
had been repulsed and that sev-
eral British naval vessels had
been sunk.
Churchill’s statement, bristling
with references to Allied “forward
I steps” and “operations now im-
- pending in the European theater,”
One cannot doubt that both capped a series of reports recent-
Stalingrad and Tunisia are the ly on huge Allied shipping move-
greatest military disasters that ments in the Mediterranean and
a rising tempo of invasion jitters
in Italy.
“I shall make no predictions as
to what will happen in the future
and still less in the near future,”
Churchill told the house of com-
mons, in London.
“All I can say is that the An-
glo-American policy, strategy and
economy of the war were brought
into full focus and function in
those 15 days of talks in Wash-
ington.”
Allied plans, he said, could best
be described as "directed to the
application upon the enemy of
force in its most intense and vio-
lent form.”
Churchill pledged an eve r
greater aerial assault upon Ger-
many, and at the same time ex-
piessed confidence that the Nc.'i
U-boat menace was being rapidly
overcome.
In the battle of Tunisia, he said,
the Axis lost 248,000 prisoners—
24,000 more than previously an-
nounced—and 50,000 killed, while
the British 8th and 1st armies
lost 37,000 killed and missing. The
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
It is an error on the part of
certain neutrals to suppose that
the previously unprepared and
ill-armed Anglo-Saxon democ-
racies will emerge from this
war weakened and prostrate,
even though victorious. On the
contrary, we shall be stronger
than ^ver before, in force, and
I trust, also in faith.
We British must continue to
place the anti-U-boat war first
because it is only by conquering
the U-boats that we can live and
act.
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This picture taken when a formation of U. S. army air forces B-25 Mitchell bombers and an escort
of P-38 Lightnings engaged an Axis air convoy of 25 planes over the Sicilian straits recently and
shot down 25 planes. Axis planes are shown being riddled by machine gun fire during the attack.
Note how splashes of water from shell fire of American planes (extreme left) almost engulfed the
lead Axis plane. American bomber (top) seems to be circling to resume the attack. Twelve Axis
transports almost at water level are under attack in this view,
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ployed far over the Pacific and
is laying an ever stronger grip
(Continued on PAGE TWO)
United Nations
To Stand United
Following War
WASHINGTON, June 8—UP)—
i When the war is won. President
Roosevelt believes the United Na-
| lions will remain “united for the
solution of the many and diffi-
cult problems of peace.’’
That the Allies really are unit-
I ed, Mr. Roosevelt said yesterday,
was “Demonstrated beyond ques-
tion" by the “epoch-making suc-
cess” of the international food
conference just ended. The con-
ference, he said, brought to the
world a new hope for attaining
freedom from want and fear.
Addressing the delegates of 44
nations in the white house east
room, the president said:
"You have surveyed with cour-
age and with realism the magni-
tude of tiie problems and have
leached unanimous agreement
that they can, and must—and will
—be solved. And we are winning
by action and unity."
The conference, the president
said, was “A living demonstra-
tion" ot the methods by which
“the conversations of nations of
’.ike mind can and will give prac-
tical application to the principles
ot the Atlantic charter.”
Zoot-Suit Negro
Ends Triangle
By Killings Two
DALLAS, Tex., June 8—(/P)—
LeRoy Pitts, 25-year-old zoot-
suited Negro tap dancing enter-
tainer at a Dallas night club, told
city detectives today that he shot
and killed his 22-year-old wife,
Ramona McLeod, also a dancer,
at their apartment here today.
City detectives E. R. Gaddy and
M. W. Stevenson said Pitts made
a written statement admitting the
shooting following what he said
was an argument over alleged at-
tentions paid her by a Negro
army lieutenant.
JAPS MAKE CLAIMS
NEW YORK, June 8 (Jp) A
Japanese communique, broadcast
by Tokyo and heard by the Asso-
ciated Press, announced “continu-
ing attacks on Eastern India" and
said the Japanese, between Mav 1
and June 5 shot down S3 Allied
planes and destroyed 40 aground.
Nine Japanese planes were re-
] ported lost and 24 damaged.
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